Dropsonde, the Glossary
A dropsonde is an expendable weather reconnaissance device created by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), designed to be dropped from an aircraft at altitude over water to measure (and therefore track) storm conditions as the device falls to the surface.[1]
Table of Contents
36 relations: Air Force Reserve Command, Aircraft, Atmosphere, Atmospheric science, Biloxi, Mississippi, Coordinated Universal Time, Data, Dew point depression, Eye (cyclone), Global Positioning System, Gulf of Mexico, Humidity, Hurricane hunters, Keesler Air Force Base, Latitude, Longitude, Marsden square, National Center for Atmospheric Research, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Nor'easter, Numerical weather prediction, Pendulum, Pressure, Radiosonde, Sensor, Temperature, Thermodynamics, Tornado outbreak, Tropical cyclone, Tropopause, United States Air Force, Weather, Weather balloon, Wind direction, Wind speed, 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron.
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Air Force Reserve Command
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Aircraft
An aircraft (aircraft) is a vehicle that is able to fly by gaining support from the air.
Atmosphere
An atmosphere is a layer of gasses that envelop an astronomical object, held in place by the gravity of the object.
Atmospheric science
Atmospheric science is the study of the Earth's atmosphere and its various inner-working physical processes.
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Biloxi, Mississippi
Biloxi is a city in Harrison County, Mississippi, United States.
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Coordinated Universal Time
Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) is the primary time standard globally used to regulate clocks and time.
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Data
In common usage, data is a collection of discrete or continuous values that convey information, describing the quantity, quality, fact, statistics, other basic units of meaning, or simply sequences of symbols that may be further interpreted formally.
Dew point depression
The dew point depression (T-Td) is the difference between the temperature and dew point temperature at a certain height in the atmosphere.
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Eye (cyclone)
The eye is a region of mostly calm weather at the center of a tropical cyclone.
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Global Positioning System
The Global Positioning System (GPS), originally Navstar GPS, is a satellite-based radio navigation system owned by the United States government and operated by the United States Space Force.
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Gulf of Mexico
The Gulf of Mexico (Golfo de México) is an ocean basin and a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean, mostly surrounded by the North American continent.
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Humidity
Humidity is the concentration of water vapor present in the air.
Hurricane hunters
Hurricane hunters, typhoon hunters, or cyclone hunters are aircrews that fly into tropical cyclones to gather weather data.
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Keesler Air Force Base
Keesler Air Force Base is a United States Air Force base located in Biloxi, a city along the Gulf Coast in Harrison County, Mississippi, United States.
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Latitude
In geography, latitude is a coordinate that specifies the north–south position of a point on the surface of the Earth or another celestial body.
Longitude
Longitude is a geographic coordinate that specifies the east–west position of a point on the surface of the Earth, or another celestial body.
Marsden square
Marsden square mapping or Marsden squares is a system that divides a world map with latitude-longitude gridlines (e.g. plate carrée projection, Mercator or other) between 80°N and 70°S latitudes (or 90°N and 80°S) into grid cells of 10° latitude by 10° longitude, each with a geocode, a unique numeric identifier.
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National Center for Atmospheric Research
The US National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) is a US federally funded research and development center (FFRDC) managed by the nonprofit University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) and funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF).
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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (abbreviated as NOAA) is a US scientific and regulatory agency charged with forecasting weather, monitoring oceanic and atmospheric conditions, charting the seas, conducting deep-sea exploration, and managing fishing and protection of marine mammals and endangered species in the US exclusive economic zone.
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Nor'easter
A nor'easter (also northeaster; see below) is a large-scale extratropical cyclone in the western North Atlantic Ocean.
Numerical weather prediction
Numerical weather prediction (NWP) uses mathematical models of the atmosphere and oceans to predict the weather based on current weather conditions.
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Pendulum
A pendulum is a device made of a weight suspended from a pivot so that it can swing freely.
Pressure
Pressure (symbol: p or P) is the force applied perpendicular to the surface of an object per unit area over which that force is distributed.
Radiosonde
A radiosonde is a battery-powered telemetry instrument carried into the atmosphere usually by a weather balloon that measures various atmospheric parameters and transmits them by radio to a ground receiver. Dropsonde and radiosonde are atmospheric sounding and Meteorological instrumentation and equipment.
Sensor
A sensor is a device that produces an output signal for the purpose of detecting a physical phenomenon.
Temperature
Temperature is a physical quantity that quantitatively expresses the attribute of hotness or coldness.
Thermodynamics
Thermodynamics is a branch of physics that deals with heat, work, and temperature, and their relation to energy, entropy, and the physical properties of matter and radiation.
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Tornado outbreak
A tornado outbreak is the occurrence of multiple tornadoes spawned by the same synoptic scale weather system.
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Tropical cyclone
A tropical cyclone is a rapidly rotating storm system with a low-pressure center, a closed low-level atmospheric circulation, strong winds, and a spiral arrangement of thunderstorms that produce heavy rain and squalls.
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Tropopause
The tropopause is the atmospheric boundary that demarcates the troposphere from the stratosphere, which are the lowest two of the five layers of the atmosphere of Earth.
United States Air Force
The United States Air Force (USAF) is the air service branch of the United States Armed Forces, and is one of the eight uniformed services of the United States.
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Weather
Weather is the state of the atmosphere, describing for example the degree to which it is hot or cold, wet or dry, calm or stormy, clear or cloudy.
Weather balloon
A weather balloon, also known as a sounding balloon, is a balloon (specifically a type of high-altitude balloon) that carries instruments to the stratosphere to send back information on atmospheric pressure, temperature, humidity and wind speed by means of a small, expendable measuring device called a radiosonde. Dropsonde and weather balloon are atmospheric sounding and Meteorological instrumentation and equipment.
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Wind direction
Wind direction is generally reported by the direction from which the wind originates.
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Wind speed
In meteorology, wind speed, or wind flow speed, is a fundamental atmospheric quantity caused by air moving from high to low pressure, usually due to changes in temperature.
53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron
The 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, also known by its nickname, Hurricane Hunters, is a flying unit of the United States Air Force, and "the only Department of Defense organization still flying into tropical storms and hurricanes." Aligned under the 403rd Wing of the Air Force Reserve Command (AFRC) and based at Keesler Air Force Base, Mississippi, with ten aircraft, it flies into tropical cyclones in the Atlantic Ocean, the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico and the Central Pacific Ocean for the specific purpose of directly measuring weather data in and around those storms.
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See also
Atmospheric sounding
- Alexander George McAdie
- Arthur Berson
- Atmospheric lidar
- Atmospheric sounding
- Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory
- Dropsonde
- FAAM Airborne Laboratory
- Georges Besançon
- Gustave Hermite
- Léon Teisserenc de Bort
- NOAA Hurricane Hunters
- National Balloon Facility
- No. 1409 Flight RAF
- Radio acoustic sounding system
- Radiosonde
- Richard Assmann
- Weather balloon
- Wind profiler
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dropsonde
Also known as Driftsonde, Dropwindsonde, GPS Dropsonde.